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Hey – hear that? It’s the Bluetooth signal from your phone. Here’s another: the Wi-Fi signal, carrying off your email. But who is in charge of them – and why does it matter?
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Hey – hear that? It’s the Bluetooth signal from your phone. Here’s another: the Wi-Fi signal, carrying off your email. But who is in charge of them – and why does it matter?
During the past week, most of the UK has been plagued by showers or longer spells of rain, dashing the hopes of anything resembling early summer for the half-term holidays.
Europe’s mainstream parties are beginning to reassert themselves, and urging caution over the dangers of the far right and far left. But complacency is the battered EU’s biggest problem.
Imagine you went to sleep in 1994 and woke up 20 years later as the Euro election results were coming in. What you might make of them can tell us a lot about Europe today.
Hopes fade of finding the missing British crew of the Cheeki Rafiki after its life raft is found on board the capsized vessel.
Officials joked earlier this week that if votes were tied for the new Police Federation leader, they would decide on the toss of a coin. But it was no joke.
A tree-dwelling carnivore from the cloud forests of South America heads this year’s top 10 list and shows that not all of the “big” species are already known or documented.
Yesterday saw thunder and lightning affect many northern and western parts of the UK, but how is it detected?
China has come out fighting following news that five of its army officers have been charged by the FBI. But with no real chance of arrest, what is behind the FBI’s charges against individuals?
There is now a real prospect that political parties that believe in the dismantling of the EU will become a dominant voice in its parliament.
In recent days, pictures have emerged from the Balkans, showing what has been described as the worst flooding in living memory. But why did it rain so much?
The death of hundreds of workers in the coal mines in Soma has unleashed a wave of grief across Turkey, writes Niall Finn, a student and blogger based in Ankara.
In a week which saw a backlash against “hashtag activism” over the #Bringbackourgirls campaign, Change.org’s UK director defends online campaigning – two years on from the website’s launch.
Research published in the journal Environment Research Letters suggests that there is a link between the activity of the sun and lightning on earth.
An individual’s “right to be forgotten” is backed by the EU high court, which rules that Google must remove data from its search listings if asked, leaving lawyers, tech firms and Google reeling.